Things have been quiet around here! It’s because I’m moving! ACK! In the meantime here are some shows that you should check out! These are the shows now playing that my friends are in. Go support them!
PLAYING NOW:
Altar Boyz
Noble Fool Theater
4051 East Main St St. Charles
Broadway’s smash hit musical returns to Chicago! With angelic voices and divine dance moves, five small-town boys believe they’re destined by God to speak the Holy Spirit through hip-hop. This charming Christian boy-band (with one nice Jewish boy) will alter your mind and raise your spirits as they look for their big break in New York while saving souls along the way. Destined to rock the masses of all denominations!
Thru - Jul 12, 2009/Box Office: 630-584-6342/www.noblefool.org
Crazy For You
Theatre At The Center
1040 Ridge Rd Munster
The high-energy musical Crazy for You features music by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and won three Tony Awards including Best Musical. The production features classic Gershwin songs such as “Embraceable You”, “Nice Work If You Can Get It”, “I Got Rhythm”, and “Someone to Watch Over Me.” In this show-stopping hit, a stage-struck son of a New York banking family is sent to Deadrock, Nevada to close down the local theater. But when he falls head over heels for the theater owner’s daughter, he finds himself putting on a top-notch production to save the theatre, but also to keep his dreams of romance alive.
Thru - Jun 14, 2009/Box Office: 219-836-3255/www.theatreatthecenter.com
Curtains
Drury Lane- Oakbrook
100 Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace
A “play within a play,” Curtains takes place at Boston’s Colonial Theatre in 1959. It’s the opening night of “Robbin’ Hood of the Old West” and new musical could be a smash hit, if it weren’t for the show’s incredibly untalented leading lady. When she is murdered during the curtain call, Lieutenant Frank Cioffi is summoned to conduct an investigation. The lure of the theater soon becomes irresistible to the stage-struck detective and he finds himself just as dedicated to making the show a hit as he to solving the murder.
Thru - May 17, 2009/Box Office: 630-530-0111/BUY TICKETS ONLINE
Evita
No Exit Cafe
6970 N. Glenwood Chicago
Theo Ubique Theatre Co. presents its boldest work to date! Following the successes Jacques Brel’s Lonesome Losers of the Night, Belle Barth: If I Embarrass You, Tell Your Friends, and the Jeff Award-Winning production of Cabaret, Theo Ubique has fused its trademark “cabaret theatre” with the rock opera Evita by Andrew Lloyd Webber. We invite you to return to the poignant music and story of Eva Peron, seen through the eye of the revolutionary, Ché Guevara!
Thru - May 31, 2009/Box Office: 773-347-1109/ www.theoubique.org
Hedda Gabler
Raven Theatre
6157 N. Clark St Chicago
Ibsen’s masterpiece depicts a woman’s inevitable road to tragedy. Hedda has recently married a kind and reliable yet unexciting scholar. She is visited by two old acquaintances: a female schoolmate and another scholar. The former has saved the latter from an unsavory lifestyle, helping him find success as a writer; Hedda is resentful both of his talent and her schoolmate’s influence on it. Out of jealousy and boredom, she proceeds to destroy each of the people around her, and finally herself. Is Hedda a heroine, a villain, a victim… or all of the above?
Thru - Jun 27, 2009/Box Office: 773-338-2177/www.raventheatre.com
High School Musical
Marriott Theatre In Lincolnshire
10 Marriott Drive Lincolnshire
It began as a smash hit Disney movie. Then the soundtrack climbed to the top of the Billboard charts. Now Troy, Gabriella and the rest of East High are ready to sing and dance in this special hour long fun-tastic musical that captivates and entertains like only Disney can!
Thru - May 18, 2009/Box Office: 847-634-0200/www.marriotttheatre.com
The History Boys
TimeLine Theatre Company
615 W. Wellington Ave Chicago
The recipient of more than 30 major awards, including Tony and Olivier awards for Best New Play, The History Boys follows a rambunctious group of clever young men as they pursue higher learning, games, sexual identity and a place at university under the guidance of three wildly different teachers and a headmaster obsessed with results. Set during the 1980s in northern England, it is a hilarious and provocative play about the anarchy of adolescence and the purpose of education — specifically, how history should be taught.
Thru - Aug 2, 2009/Box Office: 773-281-8463/www.timelinetheatre.com
The Millionaire Farmer
CLOSES TOMORROW!
BoHo Theatre @ Heartland Studio
7016 North Glenwood Chicago
Cursed at birth, the fairy maiden Anna is banished to earth to be raised by a farmer. Only by marrying her true love – a poor fisher – by her eighteenth birthday can the curse be broken and Anna be reunited with her mother. But her adoptive father has come into a mysterious fortune and now refuses the match. With the deadline approaching, Anna discovers that she has the help of magical friends, and that there are wicked forces manipulating her father. Can Anna find Contentment and break the curse, or will she succumb to the awesome power of Greed and Hate?
Thru - May 10/Box Office: 773-276-0458/www.strangelooptheatre.org
Once On This Island
Theatre Building Chicago
1225 W Belmont Ave Chicago
Ti Mouna, a black peasant girl, rescues, nurses and falls in love with Daniel, a mulatto from a wealthy family. When Daniel is returned to his people, the island gods guide Ti Mouna on a quest to test the strength of her love against the forces of prejudice, hatred and death.
Runs through Jun 28/Box Office: 773-327-5252/BUY TICKETS ONLINE
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Chopin Theatre
1543 W. Division Chicago
Jean Brodie is in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all of her pupils are the crème de le crème. The Brodie Set, as her students at the Marcia Blaine School for Girls are famously known, hang on Miss Brodie’s every word as she - with reckless abandon - dismisses the standard curriculum in favor of lessons in things that she most admires: subjects as wide-ranging as Giotto to Hitler to her own romances. When Ms. Brodie begins an affair with one teacher to distract from her affair with another, and a false love letter falls into the wrong hands, the headmistress puts Miss Brodie under review. Her considerable bombast is the only thing that saves her job, until a fatal error in guidance and the betrayal of her favorite student become more than Miss Jean Brodie can overcome…even in her prime.
Thru - May 16, 2009/Box Office: 773-278-1500/ www.signalensemble.com
Red Noses
Strawdog Theatre
3829 N. Broadway Chicago
It’s the 1300s, and a quarter of Europe is dead from the plague, pestilence is everywhere, and humanity is convinced this is Armageddon. A priest receives a command from God to gather a group of believers, teach them and send them off into the world to be clowns among men.
Thru - May 23, 2009/Box Office: 773-528-9696/www.strawdog.org
Rose and the Rime
CLOSES TONIGHT!!
Chopin Theatre
1543 W. Division Chicago
Originally developed by Nathan Allen with students at Hope College, Rose and the Rime was selected by the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival to perform at The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC on April 17, 2008. This nationally recognized new work will receive its first professional production at The House.
Thru - May 9, 2009/Box Office: 773-278-1500/
Seussical The Musical
Drury Lane- Oakbrook
100 Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace
Join the mischievous Cat in the Hat as he narrates the story of Horton the Elephant and his friends as they embark on a fanciful journey from the Jungle of Nool, through the mountains and across the ocean, to help a young girl named JoJo bring harmony back to the tiny planet of Who. Along the way, meet zany Dr. Seuss characters including the tiny Whos, harmonizing birds, a sour kangaroo, and some trouble-making monkeys!
Thru - May 16, 2009/Box Office: 630-530-011/BUY TICKETS ONLINE
Tommy
Circle Theatre
7300 West Madison Street Forest Park
After witnessing a brutal crime, young Tommy is so traumatized that he is rendered mute. As his life meanders on in post World War II England, he suffers abuse from sadistic relatives and neighbors. Tommy’s life is saved, however, when he falls in love with pinball and achieves super stardom as a pinball wizard!
Runs throug July 19/Box Office: 708-771-0700/www.circle-theatre.org
